Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook

Keith Green, Jill LeBihan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9780415114387
• eBook ISBN: 9781134822812
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Critical Teory and Practice answers lots of questions, but also stimulates new ones. Its tailor-made combination of survey, reader and workbook is ideal for the beginning - perhaps even bewildered - student of literary theory.
The work is divided into seven chapters, each of which contains guiding commentary, examples from literary and critical works, and a variety of exercises to provoke and engage you. Each chapter includes a glossary and annotated selection of suggested further reading. There is also a full bibliography.
The authors cover the key issues and debates of literary theory, including:
* Language, Linguistics and Literature
* Structures of Literature
* Literature and History
* Subjectivity, Psychoanalysis and Criticism
* Reading, Writing and Reception
* Women, Literature and Criticism
* Literature, Criticism and Cultural Identity
Critical Theory and Practice is an refreshingly clear, up-to-date and eminently readable introduction to the subject. It not only guides you through the terminology and gives you a selection of the key passages to read, it also helps you engage with the theory and apply it in practice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Language, linguistics and literature
• 2 Structures of literature
• 3 Literature and history
• 4 Subjectivity, psychoanalysis and criticism
• 5 Reading, writing and reception
• 6 Feminism, literature and criticism
• 7 Cultural identity, literature, criticism
• Bibliography
• Index